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...killing only spawned more violence. Hundreds of militant students raged through downtown streets, smashing windows and throwing Molotov cocktails. More than 1,000 protesters barricaded themselves in Athens Polytechnic University. After two days and nights of disturbances, peace returned, at a cost of one dead, more than 100 injured, and a political casualty, Government Spokesman Costas Laliotis, a left-winger who resigned in dismay at the handling of the crisis. NORTHERN IRELAND Extremists Unleash Their Fury...
...million lives, largely because Stalin's purges had destroyed the Red Army's officer class before the war started. Until June 1941, Germany and Soviet Russia were allies, and Moscow had seized the Baltic states as part of a carve-up of Eastern Europe provided for by the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Even the massive German invasion seemed, paradoxically, to promise an end to Stalin's dictatorship. Russians began to hope that victory over Hitler would bring a political thaw at home after the brutality of the 1930s. They were quickly disillusioned. With victory, repression returned. Hundreds of thousands of returning...
...term prisoners in Block 8 are clearly more thoughtful than their newer, younger cell mates. The eyes of the older men are tired and empty and desperate. It's a look that comes from too much reflection, says Nimr Shaaban, 37, who was jailed 17 years ago for throwing Molotov cocktails in Jerusalem. A while back, Shaaban found himself sharing a cell with a would-be suicide bomber picked up by Israeli police before he could detonate his charges. "I told him that suicide bombs are a big, big mistake," he says. "On the outside, they don't take time...
...trimming of PLO strategic ambitions was merely an acknowledgment of a new reality on the ground - the "intifada" uprising, that had begun a year earlier, had firmly shifted the epicenter of Palestinian hopes back to the Occupied Territories. In the global political arena, young boys armed with stones and molotov cocktails that highlighted the untenability of the occupation, even to Israelis themselves, could do far more to advance the Palestinian cause than either sporadic terror attacks or huffy resolutions...
...Mobs from both sides, armed with farmers' tools, spears and Molotov cocktails, transformed the once placid villages of Zhongmou county in China's central Henan province into an ethnic war zone more reminiscent of Gujarat or Aceh. Four days later, on Oct. 31, when order was finally restored by more than 10,000 People's Armed Police and other military personnel, 148 people were dead, according to local journalists who saw an internal document circulated among high-level bureaucrats in Henan-making this China's worst ethnic strife in years. "In all my life and that of my ancestors...